Creating and Mounting Azure File Shares

1. Log in to the Portal and go to Storage accounts in the portal menu.

2. Click on the provided storage account.

3. Click on File shares in the resource menu, in the File service section.

4. Click + File share.

5. In the form that arrives:

   • Enter fileshare1 in the Name field.
   • Set the Quota, to 2.

6. Click Create.

1. Navigate to Virtual machines in the portal menu.

2. Click on the provided virtual machine.

3. In the resource menu, under Support + troubleshooting, click Reset password. We will fill out the details on this page in just a moment.

4. Click the >_ button at the top of the Azure Portal (in the global controls section) to open the Cloud Shell.

5. Click the Bash link in the cloud shell.

6. Click Show advanced settings.

7. Set Cloud Shell region to the same region as the existing storage account.

8. For Storage account, select Use existing.

9. Under File share, select Create new and enter fileshareforcli.

10. Click Create storage.

11. Determine your account username:

    whoami
    

12. Copy the user into the Username field in the Reset password window.

13. Back in the shell, create an ssh key:

    ssh-keygen
    

14. Press Enter to save it in the default location.

15. Enter a passphrase of your choice.

16. Display the ssh key:

    cat .ssh/id_rsa.pub
    

17. Copy the displayed key into the SSH public key field in the Reset password window.

18. Click Update. This may take a few moments to update.

19. Find Overview and copy its Public IP address.

20. Back in the terminal, run this:

    ssh username@public_IP
    

    Substitute the username (cloud) and the public IP.

21. Enter yes at the prompt.

22. Enter the passphrase you entered earlier.

23. Install the cifs-utils:

    sudo apt install cifs-utils
    

24. Create a directory:

    sudo mkdir /mnt/fileshare1
    

25. Get the link for the file share:

    1. In the Azure Portal, click Storage accounts from the portal menu.

    2. Click the storage account provided as part of the lab.

    3. Click on File shares in the resource menu under File service.

    4. Click on fileshare1.

    5. Click Properties.

    6. Copy the URL field that's out in the working pane, but leave off the https: (just grab the two forward slashes and everything else to the right).

26. Retrieve the password for the account.

Note: this step is done later in the video, but is necessary to complete the following steps now:

1. In the Azure Portal, click on the **Storage Accounts** and our storage account.

2. Click on **Access keys** under **Settings** in the resource menu.

3. Copy the content in the **Key** box under **key1**.

27. Return to Cloud Shell and enter the beginning of the mount command using the copied URL. Do not include "https" in the path. Replace the STORAGE_ACCOUNT_NAME with the name for your storage account (Ex: linuxazlabmrkxkpwyqzhmu). Also make sure to replace STORAGE_ACCOUNT_KEY with the key1 parameter from the previous step. Then run the command:

    sudo mount -t cifs //FILESHARE_URL_WITHOUT_HTTPS /mnt/fileshare1 -o vers=3.0,username=STORAGE_ACCOUNT_NAME,password=STORAGE_ACCOUNT_KEY,dir_mode=0777,file_mode=0777,serverino
    

28. Verify that it is mounted (the name of the fileshare is listed):

    df -h
    

29. Navigate to the mounted directory and add a file:

    cd /mnt/fileshare1
    touch file1.txt
    

30. In the Azure Portal, get back to Storage accounts and into the one we're working with. click File shares under the File service section of the resource menu.

31. Click fileshare1 and verify the existence of file1.txt.